Example sentences of "had been taken away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The municipal railings had been taken away for the war effort and through the gaps in the makeshift fence of galvanised iron he saw a tramp in an army greatcoat sitting on a green bench . |
| 2 | The empty dishes , china , and uneaten food had been taken away for examination , so the sight and smell were somewhat more palatable than they had been the day before . |
| 3 | He high-tailed it on down to meet Genesis , whose drummer had been taken away by his mum … |
| 4 | As it turned out she was Royston Marley 's girlfriend , who told me he had been taken away by the police and was being deported . |
| 5 | Now the decision was that the money promised by the dairy company could not be recovered by the Crown , for the reason that ( a ) any prerogative power to tax had been taken away by the Bill of Rights 1689 , and that ( b ) as for the statutory powers of DORA , the Regulations under which the food Controller was acting did not on their wording enable him to impose a tax . |
| 6 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
| 7 | What was left of Jonathan Riddle had been taken away by attendants to be stored in a refrigerated drawer until the coroner issued his certificate for disposal . |
| 8 | Their homes had belonged to them , had been taken away from them and were now in the hands of others . |
| 9 | I loved my father , and when he died I felt something I loved had been taken away from me . |
| 10 | Their clothes were expensive and had cigarette burns in them , their licenses had been taken away from them , their faces showed signs of what is known as the ruins of great beauty , they were always in various stages of depression ; and , being the way they were , this had the effect of making them exceedingly witty with the scaffold humour that Lydia preferred . |
| 11 | Without him around the energy to do even the simplest of chores had been taken away from her . |
| 12 | And it had been taken away from him . |
| 13 | Now it looked as if the choice had been taken away from her . |